After a court rejected prosecutors’ plea to hold him, a 23-year-old Chicago man who is suspected of conspiring with two family members to reclaim a repossessed car at gunpoint is now free on electronic monitoring.
According to the prosecution, a 33-year-old repo man was sent to retrieve a Chrysler 300 in the 800 block of South Keeler last Thursday because the payments were past due. Bush allegedly drove his green Charger in front of the truck in the 800 block of South Kilpatrick when the repo worker started to drive off with the Chrysler.
Prosecutors claimed that one of the three males who exited the Charger pointed a gun at the repo worker and told him to drop the Chrysler. The driver of the tow truck obeyed. Bush allegedly got back into the Charger as his two relatives departed in the Chrysler that had been repossessed.
Prosecutors stated in a detention petition that the ambush was recorded by multiple cameras on the tow truck as it happened.
After entering the Charger’s description into a police computer, authorities stopped it later that day in Villa Park as Bush was driving. He was carrying a pistol, according to the prosecution, who later used still photos from the tow truck’s video to identify both the weapon and the man. According to the detention file, Bush informed investigators that the two other males involved were his brother and father. According to the paper, he acknowledged that all he wanted was the car back and mentioned that he has a concealed carry license.
Bush was accused by prosecutors of aggravated vehicular hijacking and armed robbery. Judge Maryam Ahmad rejected their request to have Bush held pending trial and instead granted his release under electronic monitoring. He is the sole defendant in relation to the purported hijacking as of Tuesday.
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